Registry No. 302-1-02 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

PROPOSED CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

COOPERAGE INDUSTRY 

AS SUBMITTED ON AUGUST 29, 1933 

UNIV. 01'· FL UI. WE DO OUR PART 

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The Code for the Cooperage Industry 

in its present form merely reflects the proposal of the above-mentioned 

industry, and none of the provisions contained therein are 

to be regarded as having received the approval of 

the National Recovery Administration 

as applying to this industry 

UNITED STATES 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

WASHINGTON : 1933 

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TENTATIVE CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

COOPERAGE INDUSTRY PROPOSED BY THE ASSOCIATED COOPERAGE INDUSTRIES OF AMERICA 

ARTICLE I 

It is hereby declared to be the purpose of the Cooperage Industry 

to eliminate unfair competitive and unfair trade practices within 

the industry, to increase purchasing power and improve standards 

of labor, to induce and maintain united action between labor and 

management under governm·ental supervision, and in general to 

promote and protect the welfare of this industry in accord with 

Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

ARTICLE II-ORGANIZATION 

The Executive Committee of The Associated Cooperage ·industries of America shall constitute the Executive Authority in the 

administration and enforcement of this Code. It shall be the general planning and coordinating agency for the industry, shall secure adherence hereto, hear and adjust complaints, consider proposals for amendments hereof and exceptions hereto, and otherwise 

carry out the purposes of this Code as set forth in the Act, including the making and enforcement of rules and regul_ations not inconsistent with the provisions hereof. 

The industry shall be divided into Divisions as set forth below, 

and into such other Divisions or Classes as mav hereafter be determined by the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee. 

shall appoint appropriate Code Committees or other agencies in 

each Division for the administration of this Code within such Division; may delegate to such agencies all necessary power and authority for the administration of this Code within such Class or 

Division, including the adoption of divisional and subdivisional 

Code provisions not inconsistent with this Code; but said Executive 

Committee shall reserve and retain generally the power and duty 

t-o enforce the provisions of this Code. 

ARTICLE III-MEMBERSHIP 

The word "persons" as used herein includes any individual, firm, 

partnership, association, or corporation. Membership in The Associated Cooperage Industries of America shall be upon terms of 

equality to all persons engaged in any branch of the sooperage 

industry, including distributors and dealers in both new and secondhand cooperage and cooperage stock. 

All persons subject to the jurisdiction of this Code shall from 

time to time as required make in confidence to the party empowered 

to receive same, such reports on wages, hours of labor, conditions 

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Divi i n of th indu tr. r ar h r by e tabli ·bed a follow 

(1) Sla k Barrel and l{eg Divi ion. 

(2) lack tav H eading and Hoop Divi ion. 

(3) Tio-ht Barrel and Keg Divi ion. 

( 4) Tio·ht Stave, Heading .and Hoop Divi ion. 

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5) B r Stave, Heading an<l Cooperage Divi ion. 

( ) Fir Stave Heading and Cooperaae Divi ion. 

(7) v\ hite Pine Stav , Heading and Coop rag Divi ion. 

ARTICLE V-LABOR PROVI ION 

(a) No person under 16 years of age hall be employed or permitted to work in this industry. 

(b) Employees of persons subject to the juri liction of thi Code 

Ehall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through 

repre entatives of their own choosing and hall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of e1nployers of labor, or their 

agents, in the designation of such representatives or in elf- r ·anization or in other concerted activitie for the purpo e of c llective 

bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. 

( c) No employee of person subject to the jurisdiction of this 

Code, and no one seeking employment from uch person hall be 

required a a condition of en1ployment to join any company union 

or to refrain from joining, oro-anizing, or assisting a labor organization of hi own choosing. 

( l) Per on ubject to the jurisdiction of thi Code ao-r e to comply with the maximum hours of labor, minimum rate of I a. and 

other condition of employment approved or pre cribed b. the 

Pre ident pursuant to the provision of the National Indu trial 

Recovery Act. 

(e) It i clearly un l rstood that no hing in thi Cod hall impair any Constitutional rights of the emplo ee and mpl y r including the right to bargain individually or oll tiY ly a. ma. be 

mutually ·atisfactory to them· n r impair th joint_ righ f employ and employer to operat an open h I n h riaht and hop 

beino- on ·idered a onformino- to th followino· tat m n by 

Admini trator H. . John on : 

' n p n h p i a place wh r an. man wh i compet nt and 

who ·e rvi · s are l ·ir d will b mplo_ d r o-ar 11 · f wh th r 

or not h b long to a union. That i xa tl. wha thi · law ·a. . Th tatut cannot b qualifie L The law 1 arl tate · that th re ·hall n t b any r quirem nt a to wh th r or not a man b loner to 

a union.' 
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(£) Nothing in this Code shall be construed to interfere with or 

prevent the selection, retention, and advancement of employees on 

the basis of their individual merit, without regard to their affiliation or nonaffiliation with any labor organization. 

(g) Nothing in this Code shall authorize any change in the maximum hours of labor, minimum rates of pay, or other conditions of 

employment specified in this Code, without the agreeunent of a truly 

representative association or group of the trade or industry, or subdivision thereof, to which this Code applies. 

ARTICLE VI-HOURS OF LABOR 

The maximum hours of labor of employees subject to the jurisdiction of this Code shall be forty ( 40) hours a week in the manufacture, recoopering, repairing and distribution of cooperage, and 

forty-eight ( 48) hours a week in the production of staves, heading, 

and hoops, subject to the following exceptions: 

1. The provisions herein shall not apply to watchmen, firemen, 

outside salesmen, repair and imaintenan,ce, transportation and shipping employees, those employed solely in executive or supervisory 

work, and temporary employment in cases of emergency. 

2. Seasonal employment in excess of the standards herein where 

operations are necessarily limited by climatic or other physical factors to less than 12 months in each year. 

3. Farmers and other persons producing by their own manual 

labor and selling their products to members hereof. 

4. Work on cooperage required for export trade, for packing 

house, dairy, agricultural, and all perishable food products, and also 

for beer and whiskey. 

ARTICLE VII-MINIMUM w AGES 

The minimum wages for common labor which shall be paid by 

persons subject to the jurisdiction of this Code shall be as follows: 

(1) In all cooperage shops, thirty (30¢) cents per hour, subject 

to the following exceptions : 

(a) for boys between 16 and 18 years of age it shall be twenty 

(20¢) cents per hour; 

(b) in the manufacture of potato and apple barrels it shall be 

twenty (20¢) cents per hour. 

(2) In mills producing taves, heading, and hoops for cooperage, 

twenty (20¢) cents per hour. 

The e minimum rates of pay are guaranteed regardless of whether 

the employee is compensated on the basis of a time-rate or piecework 

performance, and semiskilled and skilled labor shall be compensated 

at wage rates equitably higher than common labor. 

ARTICLE VIII-SELLING PRICES 

The sale of any product by a member of the industry at less than 

his co t of production or replacement cost, including the cost of all 

materials or elements recognized in accounting for Federal incometax returns, is hereby declared to be an unfair trade practice; pro--

vided, however, that in exceptional cases or for exceptional reasons 
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p rm1 1011 may in it di er tion be aiven by h Exe utive C mn1itt e to n1ake such ales at le s than uch co t, in which e nt 

n1 mber hall receive the refusal of purch ing at such le s than 

co t prices. 

RTICLE IX-CA ELL TIO OR Mom.FICATIO 

This ode or any of it provision hall be cancelled or modified 

and any appro ed rul i ued hereund r hall be ineffective to the 

ext nt nece ary to conf orn1 to any action by the President under 

Section 10 (b) of the ational Industrial Recovery Act in cancellation or modification of any order, appro al, licen e, rule or regulation pertaining thereto. 

ARTICLE X-MONOPOLIES 

(a) This Code is not designed to promote monopolies and shall 

not be availed of for that purpose. 

(b) The provisions of this Code shall not be so interpreted or 

administered as to eliminate or oppress small enterprises or to 

discriminate against them. 

ARTICLE XI-VIOLATIONS 

Violation by any persons subject to the provisions of this Code 

or any provision of this Code, or of any approved rule issued hereunder, is an unfair method of competition, and the offender shall 

,be subject to the penalties imposed by the National Industrial 

.Recovery Act. 

ARTICLE XII-EFFECTIVE DATE 

This Code and amendments thereto shall be in effect beginning 

:ten days after its approval by the President. 

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